Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-05-02

blossoms and sweet voiced birds. To-
day the voice of the north wind prevails
and boreas Is atoping for his mild man.
nered spell.
Joseph Cook the renowned platform
orator, will discuss "5even Modern
Wonders" at the Congregational CHURCH
on Friday evening next.
Regular monthly meeting of the 7.
NJ. o. A. will be held Tuesday evening
May 3D.. at the chapel Of the Congrega-
tional church at 8 o'clock.
Corn planting in this section IS about
half completed aud q much larger acre
age than ever before is being prepared.
The ground is IN excellent condition.
Tom Moore, youngest son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. M. Moore, died on Saturday eve
ming and was buried from the family
residence on Linn street this afternoon.
Reserved seat tickets for the Bensberg
concert have sold rapidly to-day. The
audiences at the concert will probable
be the largest which ever assembled
in Ysnkton2
l. O. FredericEson of Parker, jumped
from a moving train one day last week
and since that time he has been confined
to his room at o Yankton hotel with a
spraiped ankle.
Mrs. Jennie Caldwell. the evangelist.
who is conducting q series of revivals in
Yankton, gives addresses each evening
of more than an hours length and holds
the closest attention Of the audience.
Yesterday at a small house in the
northeastern suburbs there we're gather
ed a half dozen men who had a poor,
%forlorn looking key of beer surrounded,
and by the time it was empty the null
titude was full.
The Raymond house, one of the oldest
buildings in the city, is now being re-
pIastered by James Kingsbury, who put
plaster on the same walls seventeen
years ago. This is a first class recon-
mendation for MIR. Kingsbury's work
manship.
a small black leather pocket book was
lost on the streets this morning. The
book contained letters addressed to N.
b. Smith, Calvin, u. T., besides two o.
M. & st. P. railway tickets to Armour.
The finder will confer q favor on the
owner by leaving the Same at this office.
u. z. Lewis, who WINS and maintains
nice clean hog pen on west Broadway
is now convinced that a hog pen will
smell no matter how clean it is kept.
This particular pen is disinfected with
fresh water md q pitchfork every day
but the neIghbors have complained and
| Mr.. Lewis has been notified that he
must abate the nuisance.
The city schools are now almost as
| we'll attended as before the scarlet fever
| scare which caused their closing some
| weeks ago. There is some dissatisfaction
among many parents of the city about the
action of the board of education in not
admitting into the schools any children
| who have been exposed to the fever, but
this quarantine is deemed by the board
and medical faulty to be the only effec-
tuaI method of preventing a second
breaking out of the scourge. There is
q remedy suggested by which those
scholars who will get behind in their
studies by not being allowed to attend,
and that is the establishment and main
tensnce of a private school during the
summer months.
Judging from the crowded church
yesterday the interest In the revival is
more intense. Mrs. Caldwell preached
in the morning to the church from the
text: awake and put on thy Strength
oh Zion.' In the evening the sermon
was on "The Prodigal Son." and one of
the striking parts of the discussion was
the proposition that all human power,
whether talent influence or wealth.
used otherwise than God directs, is
%prodlgality in the sense of the parable
given as a text The proposition was
satisfactorily established if the general
response could be taken as an indication
This is the final week of this series. Of
meetings. Services at the usual houl
Tonight and tomorrow afternoon.